ArmenPress News Agency , Armenia
February 8, 2018 Thursday


 Armenia to make history at 2018 Winter Olympics Parade of Nations
with unique flag-bearer choice



YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 8, ARMENPRESS. Armenia’s skier Michael Michaelyan
will be the country’s flag bearer at the 2018 Winter Olympics Parade
of Nations at the opening ceremony in Pyeongchang.

Armenia is the only country in the world to have three athletes from
the same family to become flag bearers. Michaelyan’s mother and
brother were flag bearers of Armenia in the past.

Gagik Bolshikyan, head of Armenia’s delegation to the Winter Olympics
in South Korea, told ARMENPRESS that skiers Katya Galstyan, Ashot
Karapetyan, coaches Arthur Michaelyan and Seyran Harutyunyan, and
Armenian Federation of Skiing boss Gagik Sargsyan will participate in
the parade also.

The opening ceremony of the 23rd Winter Olympics will take place
February 9, 15:00 Yerevan time.

It is an unprecedented event that three members of the same family are
flag-bearers at the Olympic Games.

Michaelyan’s mother was a flag bearer for Armenia at the 1998 18th
Winter Olympics, while his brother carried the flag at the 2014 Sochi
Olympics.